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COMPUTER-CONTROLLED CUTTING

This week, I created a slot car boxes by laser-cutting.

I make de design of the pieces with Rhino. I create a new layer with all the parts I want to cut with the machine.

 To look about the adjust of the pieces, I used a little adjust comparison table we have here in FabLab Leon, and decided to use a +0.7mm adjust, It´s that the male piece will be +0.7mm bigger than the female one, with this parameter we can control the force we want in our adjust.

I use the following parameters to cut a 3.5mm wood  piece.

V/P/F  20/90/531

Once we have all the printing settings Ok, we send the job to the machine.

And start to cut.

If you will use the machine for the first time until some hours of not be used, the laser could be cold and the firsts millimeters of cutting could be failed, as we can see on the next image.

Here there are some photos of the final laser-cutted boxes.

And finally... white paint and a couple of red adhesive stripes…

You can get the cutting file here.

Have a nice week!!    :-)